CYTOLOGIC FEATURES ON NEEDLE ASPIRATION OF WILMS TUMOR IN AN ADULT - A CASE-REPORT

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 27  (1) , 69-72
Abstract
A needle aspiration specimen from a left kidney mass in a 28-yr-old woman was submitted for cytologic evaluation. Malignant cells were found, and the cytologic appearance was suggestive of a poorly differentiated sarcoma, with the possibility that it was a nephroblastoma. Important cytologic features of the needle aspiration specimen included round or oval blastomatous cells mixed with spindle or elongated sarcomatous cells, rare tubule-like formations of cells that appeared epithelial and a pronounced tumor diathesis. Histologic study of the nephrectomy specimen showed a Wilms'' tumor, with anaplastic blastomatous and undifferentiated sarcomatous elements.

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